
Quicker
An Ell Donsaii Story, Volume 1
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Shiromi Nassreen
Quicker is a near-future SciFi/Thriller whose young heroine, Ell Donsaii, is an intrepid athletic phenom who reminds one of David Weber's Honor Harrington. Like Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Ell is also a mathematical genius who, instead of counting sheep, works on her own theory of quantum mechanics to help her drift off to sleep. At once shy and concerned about her social skills, yet well loved by those around her, she finds herself at the center of a terrorist plot at the Olympics. The terrorists never contemplated trying to hold a hostage with the unbelievable quickness and athleticism of Ell Donsaii! A tradition of young, strong, brilliant, female heroines like Honor, Lisbeth, and Katniss Everdeen is continued.
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Awesome book
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Netflix needs to make this a series!!
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Top-Shelf fodder here!
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review of volumes 1 - 7 (what's on Audible atm)
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Terrific
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Need I say more?
I’m not a fan of female heroines that are beautiful—the cleverest—tall—physically idilic. However, I’ll make an exception for Ell. She’s not good at everything and incredibly down to earth—ordinary in a nerdy, but individual way. That’s what makes this different from those stereotypical stories.
I’m already wondering how I can up my two credits a month for this series. What a find. I thought I loved Vaz and Tiona—holy smokes!
I read this novel in under a day, out on a Sunday drive—it’s the beginning of the month and there’s only. Another ten novels in this series. How will I get through them when I have work this week?
Hey, who needs to sleep?
You have to try this book!
Helena
Fantastic, amusing, impossible to put down!
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The series improves as it progresses, for the most part (though #2 is a bit of a slog). Just as you'd expect for an author learning his audience and his craft. I would unreservedly recommend this book except.... One failing, and that's that the attempted sexual assault isn't fully dealt with. Many many other parts of the rest of the series (and even some in this book) express full understanding of women's challenges, so this is NOT an indicator that Mr. Dahners is deliberately perpetuating misogyny, but the issue could (and IMO should) have been more directly addressed. I believe he was paying so much attention to making his MC respond in a particular way, that he forgot that he's also responsible about what his book says about the crime itself. It could have been accomplished by using the police respondents, Phil's family, or even his own thoughts to show the severity of his chosen actions, preferably before he was presented as an accepted 'good guy.'
But ladies, don't let that deter you. The rest of the Donsaii saga is so incredibly satisfying, especially on that level, that this stumble should not be the basis upon which it is judged. She's fun, capable, intelligent and a great means through which to point out the weaknesses in our social constructs around gender without killing anyone's enjoyment.
Love the series, this book is fun but....
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Excellent Story!! Fun Exciting Read
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Upbeat positive SciFi story
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Sci-fi True to it premise
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